| Bob Dylan – When I Paint My Masterpiece Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is one of my favorite songs of all time. I think it's about one's struggles to find true love. The streets of Rome are the paths taken by all people on their quest for their soul mate. The colesium is the act itself of finding someone. Sometimes you dodge lions (deal with the pain of a relationship), other times it seems that your just wasting time with someone you really don't care for. The mighty kings of the jungle are the one's that make it seem so easy, that they can just walk up to another and start up with the sweet talk, or the couples that just seem so perfect. Rome, Brussels, the plane ride, they all symbolize the long journey you must take along the way. His masterpiece, then, would be the love that he's been looking for all this time. "everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody..." might be my favorite line ever. |
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| Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Released Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I could see this song being about a man on death row, waiting for his execution, but maybe it's simply about being released from one's sins or wrong doings. "Yet I swear I see my relfection..." I see as although he's down and out, in a world of trouble, that he should feel like he's got nothing to live for, he still sees himself as above everybody else. Not in a sense that he's better than them, but that his life still has meaning. |
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